RE: [PATCH net-next 1/2] cxgb4/cxgb4vf: Add support for ndo_set_vf_vlan
From: Yuval Mintz <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-24 10:39:25
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Are you preventing VGT configuration once VST is configured? If not, what to prevent VM user from configuring vlan interfaces on top of the VF, even if VST is configured?Again this misses documentation, what if VLAN interface is already configured in VM before VST is configured. Before there were callbacks to add/remove vlan interface, now that is removed how to achieve it? OR am I missing something?
I can only offer what our drivers [bnx2x, qed*] are doing - - VST is achieved by FW adding the vlan tag [unknowingly to VF] on egress traffic, and silently stripping the vlan tag from the incoming traffic [so VF driver never sees the tag]. - Once VST is enabled, device [well, actually PF driver] would reject any further requests for configuring VGT. - Once VST is configured, device would silently drop any vlan-tagged egress Traffic sent by VF, and would classify incoming traffic for that VF only if it's tagged with the VGT vlan-id. This has the effect of making existing vlan-interface over the VF completely dysfunctional [as all transmissions from them would be dropped and they'll never see any additional incoming traffic].